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Microsoft and U3?

Submitted by rfox on May 28, 2007 - 9:12pm

Old news, I'm aware, but I wanted to see your thoughts on this.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-11SanDisk07PR.msp...

Apparently, Microsoft is teaming up with Sandisk to develop (or replace) U3 to make it more customizable.

"The new offering will be designed so that users can carry their personal computing environment — including a customized and familiar user interface, applications and data — on a flash storage device such as a USB flash drive or flash memory card."

portable external order apps

Submitted by gortex3D on May 27, 2007 - 12:36pm

Hello everyone.

I wanted to know if there is an order to make it possible to open portable apps when he is launched? When I launch it it to create me one 2ieme menu but I just wish to open the window. It is possible to prevent the multiple opening of portableapps?

How to make so that on an external hard disk portableapps launches out automatically without having the Windows window which requires of me what I want to make, to make as for CD?

Truecrypt without admin privilidges

Submitted by PedleZelnip on May 27, 2007 - 10:19am

I'm sure this has been asked before but I wanted to be totally sure:

- is there anyway one can use TrueCrypt (www.truecrypt.org) on a Windows machine without administrator privilidges?

On my USB stick I have a good size TC partition with all my data, but when I go to the computers at school I can't do anything with it as I don't have admin privilidges on those computers.

Thanks...

PortableFirefox blocked!

Submitted by WGroleau on May 26, 2007 - 12:48pm

My public library has figured out how to prevent Portable FireFox from running in their public computers. Sigh....

They have a Novell Apps Launcher network, and when I double-click the app on the USB drive, two popups says App has benn terminated (one for the launcher and one for FireFox).

Not that anyone can do anything here, just venting.

Two little questions.-

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Submitted by Aciago on May 26, 2007 - 8:27am

Just two questions...

As you now, there is an "AppInfo" subfolder inside "App" folder... What do the files there? I mean, are they necessary to run the PApp?

and the second one is, Every PApps is divided in two folders "App" and "Data"... Is it possible to put every PApp together sharing the same two folders? I mean, Can I have all my profiles in one folder and all my PApps in another one? ... I tried before but "AppInfo" keeps overwriting other Apps appicon.ico and appinfo.ini

Running PA on a work computer. . .

Submitted by Milenko on May 26, 2007 - 1:09am

Hey everybody. Just a quick question. I work for a company that doesn't exactly give everybody admin rights. U3 drives work no problem, but I'm not sure about this program. Just haven't tried it yet. I do know tried to run trilian on my work computer from a jump drive, and it would not work (although it works on my other 2 pcs, so I doubt it's a registry issue). What I'm thinking is that my work may have blocked the ability to run executables. Is the launchpad on a U3 drive an .exe or is it a different file type?

Other Apps

Submitted by tasha on May 25, 2007 - 1:45pm

I'm sure that this is answered somewhere here and I've been looking for days, but How do I load other Apps on my thumb drive and have them show up on the menu? Not the approved ones but other portable apps.

Thanks.

program developers smalltalk, what ide / programing language are you using?

Submitted by guestt on May 24, 2007 - 9:36pm

Dunno where to post but I think here are enugh developers around...

I tested several ide`s / programing languages and I would be interested what is your favorite one (for desktop/client programs)?

I tested recently....

* C++: with dev-cpp
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- you may compile your source under linux aswell too
- not bad, better then the PellesC ide
- much better then just notepad and gcc
- not that productive like visual studio
- complicated compared to C# and script languages like ruby

* C# .net, VB.net with visual studio 2005
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Can you close PAM from a batch file/command line?

Submitted by ozbodd on May 24, 2007 - 11:32am

I saw in another post from 2006 that John said there was no -exit switch, is that still the case?

I am using Bart's Launch.exe (http://www.nu2.nu/launch/) to open different themed menus of PAM and can use Taskkill to terminate the second instance however this wont function at my work Sad

**UPDATE**

Found out how to do it using AutoIT and refresh the TSR icons too. Probably still wont work without Admin rights though.

Setup of USB Flash Drive for PortableApps Not Possible in Windows 2000?

Submitted by bme on May 24, 2007 - 12:35am

I have a Twinmos X4 flash disk.I downloaded the lite suite on a windows 2000 pro PC. I tried installing the Lite Suite it proceeded until a error message saying 2 or 3 files are corrupted so installation cannot continue. I redownloaded the suite 2 times but still I get the error. I suspected that my flash drive is defective so I tried reformatting it. Then I installed the standalone version of audacity(not portable apps) on the flash drive. It worked ok.so I think there is nothing wrong with my flash disk.

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